Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Our guy in Lowe Library

President Lee Bollinger, Columbia University's answer to Chuck Norris, is at it again. As we all see from the headlines, he invited Iranian President Ahmadinejad up to Columbia to talk and then shat all over him as he came in the door. All for the sake of intellectual freedom? ("He can think what he wants but I can fight with him about it").

Methinks not. Instead, Bollinger just wants to keep Columbia in the news, make it a "player", so he can keep raising funds and consciousness to further the Northward enhancement of the university into Harlem, and the establishment of a Columbia campus on each continent. Oh yes, he will be king.

I suppose that's the modern way to go. But do alums really want to give money to guys who invite delusional and dangerous heads of state and then pummel them on arrival? This one doesn't.

How did he know Ahmadinejad wouldn't pull a smooth one on stage and leave egg on Columbia's face? Can you be sure a guy is delusional and not just faking?

Posted by Cleric Mikhailovich de Troi at 10:54 AM

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Bollinger is a buffoon, as he ably demonstrated on Monday. One doesn't start a productive debate with insults, some based on faulty premises at that (e.g. the dictators in Tehran are the clerics, not the president). On the other hand, he'd backed himself into a corner by inviting Amahd. to a campus that the JDL thinks it owns.

10:43 AM

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